Hamas Claims ‘Mix-Up’ With Body While Israel Awaits Return of 6 More Hostages

Israel says the two Bibas children and Oded Lifshitz, whose bodies were returned on Feb. 20, were murdered, but that the fourth body was not the boys’ mother.

Israelis hold posters of images of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 20, 2025. Reuters/Itay Cohen/ File Photo

Confronted with Israel’s charge that a body it received was not Shiri Bibas, nor even a hostage, the Hamas terrorist group said there may have been “an error or mix up” in bodies found in the rubble left by an Israeli airstrike Hamas says killed the woman and her two young sons.

Hamas said her remains appear to have been mixed with others. The group said it will “examine these allegations very seriously” and announce its findings.